The Lost Realm

My dog has no nose.

Why, that's terrible! How does he smell?

Using a state of the art, bionic implant that connects directly into his olfactory cortex.

That's just not even funny…

Just how lucky can you get? I guess this is what happens when you clean. How many disasters could have been avoided, had we only cleaned up a little more often? How many people could have been saved if we'd only mopped the floor once or twice a week? Not only would our buildings be nice and shiny, but we'd avoid being blown up all the time.

The DVD format is already outdated, with the release of the Blu-Ray disc. It has the backing of all the major parties, except Toshiba and JVC. This isn't really suprising, since Toshiba owns the majority share in the DVD format, and JVC is still desperately holding on to VHS. No format with this level of support that I can think of has ever failed to grab a majority share of the market.

Blu-Ray has some pretty nice specifications too, and they've finally gone for putting the disc inside a protective caddy (they call it a cartridge). I was amazed when they didn't do this for DVDs. The transfer rate is up to 36Mbs, which is very nice indeed, and the recordable format has already been decided, thereby avoiding the mess we have with DVD-RAM/DVD-RW/DVD+RW.

The one thing that will certainly kill the DVD is the storage space. Sure, a DVD can hold a full movie at broadcast/VHS resolution, but the Blu-Ray can hold about 27G. That's about 13 hours at broadcast resolution, and a full 2 hours of high-definition. A proposed dual-layer disc would double that. As HDTV becomes popular, people are going to want to watch their movies at the same level of quality. DVDs just aren't going to be able to keep up.

All we can hope for now, is that they'll throw away the awful concept of region-coding, or at least make it workable.

Is this the future of housing? Their selling point seems to be semi-naked women, and they didn't bother to mention that it floats. Oh well. I'm not sure why you'd want to be stranded out there in the middle of the water, anyway.

Really, this image has sold it to me. Such style, and it has just the right amount of space for me to disco on the table! Oh, and it has so much space for parties.

With a mirrorball, it would be so cool.

This is possibly the scariest set of composite images I've ever seen. The only thing that could possibly be worse, is if someone did the same to John Howard. Now there's a mental image I really didn't need.

According to some new research, those who sleep for seven hours live longer than those who sleep for eight. While I'm not so sure about the results, reading this has made me feel quite at ease. You see, I sleep for seven hours. In fact, I sometimes sleep for seven hours, immediately followed by another seven. I guess that means I'm going to live twice as long.